The Iconoclast

Pauper Patients
By Theodore Dalrymple In the struggle between ideology and reality, ideology often emerges victorious—for a time only, however, reality being that which cannot be indefinitely denied. As Horace said, albeit […]

New Yorker’s David Remnick in a Blinken interview: obsessively anti-Israel — and foolish to boot
Lev Tsitrin The New Yorker editor David Remnick’s recent exit interview with Antony Blinken was, needless to say, intended to be about Blinken and his legacy as the head of the […]

Judge criticises police and social services as sex offenders jailed
The latest tranche of Muslim rape gang merchants go down. Except 2 of them have absconded. From the Bradford newspaper the Telegraph and Argus and BBC Yorkshire A judge has strongly […]

Happy DJT Day
Monday marks a new kind of holiday. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds I heard a woman at my gym say she’ll be celebrating the national holiday on Monday. “MLK Day?” someone […]

Pam Bondi’s Testimony
By Gary Fouse While I did not watch Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing live, I did watch replays of her testimony while being questioned by certain senators. I was especially interested […]

US/Canada Relations: Conrad M. Black with Raymond Arroyo

Oh Please! An American ERA Amendment Now?
By Phyllis Chesler Biden and the Democrats have just sold Israel down the river–but they’ve also just gone and ratified the Equal Rights Amendment–long after the clock ran down on […]

The carbon tax gone crazy
By William Corden I just got my latest monthly heating bill. Here’s a copy of it Actual cost of gas was $56 Carbon tax $102 Meantimes they don’t have carbon […]

Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”
By Victor Davis Hanson Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now […]

‘What do you mean?!’ Khan won’t say if grooming gangs roam London in heated City Hall exchange
I’m not the only one sure that something nasty must be happening in London, a city of 8 million people over half of whom are of immigrant ethnic background. Readers […]

The Muslim Brotherhood relies on the West’s self-censorship, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In The Telegraph Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan speak to one of the most important global voices on radical Islam and grooming gangs Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an author and […]

Politically Incorrect Comedy Still Survives
By Bruce Bawer At CNN, the biggest annual tradition is its several-hours-long New Year’s Eve celebration. It used to star prime-time news anchor Anderson Cooper and one of his bosom […]

Why not bring the world under America’s constitutional umbrella?
From Geoffrey Clarfield from the American Thinker If you read this playful and creative article with proper intent, there is kernel of a fine idea that begins with the US, […]

Confessions of a Middle East Ceasefire-ophrenic
By Roger L Simon Let me begin with an understatement. It will be an interesting time to be visiting Israel. Sheryl and I will be arriving at Ben Gurion Airport […]

Eat A Falafel And Stand With The Jews
By Ehud Neor Every year as January 18th approaches I revisit the story of David “Dugo” Leitner, of blessed memory, whose personal observance on that date became an Israeli-wide tradition, […]

Contributions of Western Colonialism to Human Flourishing: A Research Bibliography
By Bruce Gilley I have released today Version 5.0 of my Contributions of Western Colonialism to Human Flourishing: A Research Bibliography, first issued in 2018 in response to the “there […]